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The Right Stuff

Fascinated by outer space and the minutiae of daily life, James Rosenquist has outlasted Pop to make bright paintings that are records of their timeElisa Turner

American Art

American Impressions: The new shimmering lines and broken brushstrokes of the French Impressionists left marks on the minds and works of American artistsAnn Landi

Visions of Light: Sanford Robinson Gifford’s radiant style of Luminism is revealed in a major exhibitionBonnie Barrett Stretch

The Odd Couple: What defined American Modernism? Friends and friendly competitors, Duchamp and Stieglitz had different ideasDeidre Stein Greben

The Dahesh Enigma

The only museum in the United States devoted to 19th- and early-20th-century European academic art has just moved into new Madison Avenue quarters. Its exhibitions have been well received, but it continues to distance itself from the man for whom it was named—a Middle Eastern writer, philosopher, and art collector who founded a religion known as DaheshismKelly Devine Thomas

Issues

October 2003 Issue

The first Diane Arbus retrospective in three decades presents a portrait of a woman warrior who constantly exposed herself to physical and psychic risk, sought out marginal as well as celebrated people, and recorded her times with the urgency of a photojournalist in the midst of a war. Read More